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Monument to Edward Onslow Ford

1901 establishments in England1901 sculpturesGrade II listed buildings in the City of WestminsterGrade II listed monuments and memorialsObelisks in England
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Edward Onslow Ford monument geograph.org.uk 3134943
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The Monument to Edward Onslow Ford is a Grade II listed monument on Abbey Road in St John's Wood, London, near Ford's former home. Onslow Ford was himself a sculptor and would produce many memorials and monuments in his own lifetime. The monument was erected around 1901 unveiled by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, with artists such as John William Simpson and Andrea Carlo Lucchesi involved in the design. It takes the form of a Portland stone obelisk with bronze detailing including a relief bust of Onslow Ford by Lucchesi and on the obverse side a copy of Ford's Muse taken from his Shelley Memorial by Simpson. The monument is listed alongside the two ornamented lamps to either side. An inscription on the monument reads 'To thine own self be true', a quote from Hamlet. Ford was a member of the New Sculpture movement, with strong influences from Alfred Gilbert. The memorial was set up by friends, colleagues and admirers with whom Ford was popular.

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Monument to Edward Onslow Ford
Abbey Road, City of Westminster St. John's Wood

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Memorial to Edward Onslow Ford

Abbey Road
NW8 9DE City of Westminster, St. John's Wood
England, United Kingdom
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Marlborough Road tube station
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Marlborough Road (sometimes shortened to Marlboro Road) is a disused London Underground station in St John's Wood, north-west London. It opened in April 1868 on the Metropolitan & St. John's Wood Railway, the first northward extension from Baker Street of the Metropolitan Railway (now the Metropolitan line). In the mid-1930s the Metropolitan line was suffering congestion at the south end of its main route, where trains from its many branches shared the limited capacity between Finchley Road and Baker Street. To ease this congestion, new deep-level tunnels were constructed between Finchley Road and the Bakerloo line tunnels at Baker Street; then, commencing on 20 November 1939, the Metropolitan's services toward Stanmore were transferred to the Bakerloo line (they are now on the Jubilee line) and ran to Baker Street through the new tunnels. Upon the transfer, Marlborough Road station was closed and replaced by St John's Wood station, then on the Bakerloo line; it had been little used, except (owing to its close proximity to Lord's Cricket Ground) during the cricket season.Shots of the remains of the platforms, and an outside shot of the station building and booking hall—which at the time was in use as a steak restaurant—were included in Metro-Land, a 1973 documentary presented by John Betjeman. The building housed a Chinese restaurant until 2009 and now contains a substation installed as part of the power upgrade programme to support the introduction of S stock on the Metropolitan line.Marlborough Road itself was renamed Marlborough Place in the 1950s.